Portfolio — 27 August 2026

The Member for Narre Warren South's Assembly contribution on 25 August 2026 was procedural in character, focused on the committee and tabling functions that mark the district's parliamentary footprint in this window. The Member presented two reports from the Scrutiny of Acts and Regulations Committee: Alert Digest No. 11 of 2026 and the Annual Review 2025: Statutory Rules and Legislative Instruments [TA-260825-vichns-1f0d21d52e31:s004 TA-260825-vichns-1f0d21d52e31:s005].

Alert Digest No. 11 scrutinised eight bills, among them the Associations Incorporation Reform Amendment Bill 2026, the Consumer Legislation Amendment Bill 2026, and the Justice Legislation Amendment (Family Violence, Coercive Control, Good Character, Risk Assessment and Other Matters) Bill 2026 [TA-260825-vichns-1f0d21d52e31:s004]. The Justice Legislation Amendment bill is the most substantively significant of the three named instruments, touching coercive control, good character provisions, and risk assessment frameworks — areas of ongoing legislative development in Victoria.

The Annual Review covers the full 2025 statutory rules and legislative instruments cycle, providing the Assembly with the Committee's assessment of delegated legislation for the year [TA-260825-vichns-1f0d21d52e31:s005]. The Clerk also tabled a range of documents in the same session, including a Health Complaints Commissioner report for 2025–26, a government response to the Public Accounts and Estimates Committee's inquiry into 2024–25 financial and performance outcomes, planning scheme amendments across twelve local councils, and statutory rules under the Land Act 1958, Mental Health and Wellbeing Act 2022, and Mineral Resources (Sustainable Development) Act 1990 [TA-260825-vichns-1f0d21d52e31:s005].

The planning scheme amendments — spanning twelve councils — represent a material cross-district reach, though the records do not specify whether any amendment affects Narre Warren South directly. No third-party references to the district and no member media releases appear in the records for this window.